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Les McCann

Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues

Les McCann is a Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Bobby Timmons, Helen Baylor, Eugene McDaniels, Charlie Byrd and Gene McDaniels. Those roots explain a lot about how Les McCann arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Horace Silver, The Crusaders, Jack McDuff, Reuben Wilson and Johnny Hammond, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Eric B. & Rakim, The Five Stairsteps, Mobb Deep, Monty Alexander and Lowell George, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 40 connections around Les McCann, reaching back through Bobby Timmons and forward to Eric B. & Rakim. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Les McCannBobby TimmonsHelen BaylorEugene McDanielsCharlie ByrdGene McDanielsEric B. & RakimThe Five StairstepsMobb DeepMonty AlexanderLowell GeorgeRaekwonRichard "Groove" Hol…Lou RawlsHorace SilverThe CrusadersJack McDuffReuben WilsonJohnny HammondThe Ramsey Lewis TrioIdris MuhammadLonnie Liston Smith

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Les McCann connections

Les McCann grew out of Bobby Timmons, Helen Baylor, Eugene McDaniels and Charlie Byrd, shares an orbit with Horace Silver, The Crusaders, Jack McDuff and Reuben Wilson, went on to shape Eric B. & Rakim, The Five Stairsteps, Mobb Deep and Monty Alexander. 40 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

Who influenced Les McCann

Roots5

Sounds and acts that shaped Les McCann.

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